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Graduate Why is the variance of the Parzen density estimator infinite?

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Undergrad Why do weights in weighted averages have to be positive?

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Undergrad Calculating probabilities for Liar's Dice with five dice and a wildcard

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Graduate Uniform distribution on high dimensional space

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Undergrad If mutually exclusive, prove Pr(A) <= Pr(B')

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Graduate What Justifies Using a Single SD for All Measurements in a Dataset?

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Undergrad Standard errors in surface areas and volumes?

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Graduate Entropy of a product of positive numbers

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Graduate Transformation of a random variable

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Graduate Why does Gaussian distribution approximate numerous uncertainties?

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Undergrad Number of ways to place n balls into m boxes

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Undergrad Gaussian curve not fitting histogram of my data

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Undergrad Permutations and combinations with repeated elements

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Graduate Finding Ways to Execute Concurrent Processes: An Urn Model

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Undergrad Why are p-values uniformly distributed under the null hypothesis?

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Undergrad How to Calculate the Probability of Picking 12 Different Colors from 16 Marbles

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Undergrad Q correlation coefficient (diagrams from textbook provided)

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Graduate A formula provable without is a tautology

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Graduate Equivalence Relations and Partitioning in Sets

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High School Stats: Simple Weighted Means Question

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Graduate Power expansion of the Dirac Delta function?

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Undergrad Confidence intervals and range of possible values

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Graduate Can Mathematics be Translated to First-Order Language?

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High School Easy question. Sampling techniques.

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Undergrad Extrapolating Human Population to 5000 B.C

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Undergrad A good book for probability theory? Any recommendations?

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Undergrad Why is standard deviation the preferred method for measuring dispersion?

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Graduate Is it possible to calculate a binomial distribution with a non-constant p?

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Undergrad How to calculate error when adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing variables

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Undergrad Sample space and probability measure.

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Graduate Are open balls and neighborhoods the same thing?

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Undergrad Proving E[X] = np and Var(X) = np(1-p) for binomial distribution

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Undergrad (regression) why would you exclude an explanatory variable

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Undergrad Probability problem (came in TIFR)

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Undergrad How Many Combinations of Two Days Can Be Chosen from Seven?

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Graduate Motivation behind random variables?

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Graduate What is the paradox of guessing coin flips with probability 2/3?

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Graduate Question on Importance Sampling (Monte Carlo method)

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Undergrad Are graphs I and II isomorphic with the right vertex mapping?

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High School Name of the set of negative integers

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Graduate Testing multiple linear restrictions

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Graduate Finding Uncertainty in a coefficient with a Chi Squared Test

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Graduate Proving the set of transcendental numbers is uncountable

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Undergrad Lock problem -need a mathematical proof

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Undergrad The relationship between two variables (Stats)

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Graduate Joint expectation of two functions of a random variable

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Undergrad Solving the URN Problem: Finding the Probability of Drawing a White Ball

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Graduate Convergence in measure vs Almost surely convergence

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Graduate How to express that only one element of a set satisfies a condition

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Undergrad Normal distribution probability between two values, binomial approximation

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Graduate How to Obtain the Transition Probability Matrix in a Birth Death Markov Chain?

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Graduate Is the characteristic function constant everywhere if it is constant at 0?

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Graduate Measuring The RATE of Probability Change

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Graduate Finding min and max regression slopes with unequal point uncertainties

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Undergrad What is the best strategy for maximizing profits in roulette?

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Graduate Graduate Studies - Categorical Logic

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Graduate Estimating error in slope of a regression line

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Graduate Cardinality of Cartesian Product

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Graduate Does the Distribution of X + Y mod a Remain Uniform?

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Graduate Undergraduate mathematical logic questions

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Graduate What math topic optimizes phone plans by past usage?

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Undergrad Comparing two variables from the same sample of participants

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Graduate The terms function and map .

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Graduate Basic notation (conditional probability delim in linear equation)

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Undergrad Probability of event occurring - poisson distribution?

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Graduate When is it inappropriate to report Pearson correlation coefficients?

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Undergrad Puzzling roll X dice, choose Y highest problem

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Undergrad It seems easy, but I don't get it

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Graduate Conditional expectation of three exponential distributed r.v.

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Undergrad Statistics, Parameters, and the Central Limit Theorem

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Undergrad How to calculate compound percentage change

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Graduate When does {t < α} ∩ {β < u} equal {t < α < u}?

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Graduate A Bijection from N to Q: Explicit Formula for Rational Numbers

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Graduate Can the largest describable integer in English be outdone?

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Graduate Counting total pictures with 45×45 pixels and 8-bit color depth

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Undergrad Confusion on anti-symmetric and symmetric

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Undergrad Mean centering of the covariance matrix in PCA

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Graduate Are There More Real Numbers Than Rational Numbers Without Complex Set Theory?

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Graduate Sum of 2 Non-identical Uniforms RVs?

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Graduate Does Godel's Incompleteness Theorem Apply to Fuzzy Sets?

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Graduate What Is the Distribution of Population Multiplicities in Countries?

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High School What symbol represents removing an element from a set?

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Graduate MLE, Uniform Distribution, missing data

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Undergrad If Var(Y) = σ², what is Var(Y²)?

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Undergrad How To Calculate Range of Values Of A Random Variable (Binomially Distributed)

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Graduate Roll 14 dice, take the highest 7

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Graduate The probability as an absolut value of the square of the amplitude

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Undergrad Setting Up Probability for Casting Concrete: E1, E2, and E3 Events Defined

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Undergrad Checking Triangle Inequality for List Similarity Metric

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Graduate What does D represent in lambda calculus semantics?

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Graduate A question on the interpretation of randomness in algorithmic information theory

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Undergrad Card distribution probabilities in double deck pinochle

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Graduate Coin tossing -extended version-

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Undergrad What Does \bar{\in} Symbol Mean?

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Graduate Abstract/Discrete/Algebraic Mathematics.

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Undergrad Chebyshev's theorem: finding k for upper tail probability

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Graduate Cross correlation in two data sets of the same sample population

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Undergrad Probability of 15+ Consecutive Heads Over 40 Coin Tosses

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High School Set Theory and Circumference of a Circle

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Undergrad Equalising Final available quantity-demand percentage for all stores

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